Bug#752837: About to have broken kiwix remove from Debian

Mike Gabriel mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de
Thu Sep 25 10:36:42 UTC 2014


Hi Emmanuel,

On  Do 25 Sep 2014 11:35:47 CEST, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote:

> Hi Mike
>
> Thank you very much for your patience and effort to keep Kiwix  
> running on Debian. The work generated by the deletion of xulrunner  
> related packages is not trivial. We have had already a look to this  
> at the time xulrunner was removed from Ubuntu.
>
> Therefore, without a compilation/gecko wizard being able to fix it  
> within the next weeks, I don't think kiwix is going to survive in  
> the Debian repository... for now.
>
> It's of course sad, it has always been important for us to be in  
> Debian. But, Kiwix development is alive and I hope this step  
> backward will be at anytime forgotten by two steps forward, and we  
> will see then Kiwix back in Debian.
>
> Regards
> Emmanuel

thanks for your reply. We just discussed the issue on IRC (for those  
who were not around on IRC channel #kiwix (Freenode).

I have filed a removal request for kiwix against ftp.debian.org.

Mike

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